Top 36 Newspaper Editor Quotes
#1. Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
Jack Germond
#2. The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
Tony Hillerman
#3. I personally made lots of mistakes during my 10-12 years as a newspaper editor. Some of which I felt were big mistakes I have tried to address.
Rebekah Brooks
#4. Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.
Arthur Christiansen
#5. I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
Ed Asner
#6. My father was a newspaper editor, so I was surrounded by journalists my entire life. I think the fact that he was so well known may be why I chose to go into magazines and move to the States at a young age.
Anna Wintour
#8. I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
Nancy Reagan
#9. I could be worse, you know."
"How?" I asked, teasing.
"I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse."
"Sounds unsanitary," I said.
John Green
#10. If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#11. I can just imagine what the humidity has done to my hair. I'm going to meet your family looking like a poodle with a live wire shoved up its butt. - Paige Winterbourne
Kelley Armstrong
#12. I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing scholarship. It's always been a passion of mine.
Zoe Lister-Jones
#14. Spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. The combined odors of Cass's subtle aftershave and the disgusting reek of Nic are overpowering. I wonder if Cass will keel over and I'll have to perform CPR. This speculation should not feel so much like a fantasy.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#17. In 1981, Ms. Ebtekar was made editor-in-chief of the English-language newspaper 'Kayhan International.' The man who gave her the job was Mr. Khatami, who was then head of the Kayhan publishing house.
Elaine Sciolino
#18. I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.
Mark Twain
#19. I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.
Jenna Bush
#20. We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.
Sonia Choquette
#21. I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger
#22. Boy, this is your lucky day!" She clapped her hands. "You found yourself a librarian! I can help wit the figuring-out thing and point you toward some good poetry while I'm at it. It's what I do.
Joe Hill
#23. I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.
Tina Fey
#24. Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.
David Mitchell
#25. I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.
Jill Abramson
#26. Support our troops!" we cry, but I say, "Love our veterans!" And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him a song. Pet his cat.
Chila Woychik
#27. Americans had to choose between permitting them to become democracies or maintaining power over them. It was an easy choice.
Stephen Kinzer
#28. He announced his intentions to build a spaceport by walking into the office of a local newspaper, the Van Horn Advocate, and giving an impromptu interview to its bewildered editor.
Brad Stone
#29. I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor of the newspaper.
Halle Berry
#30. The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.
James Daly
#31. As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily ... and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant.
James A. Haught
#32. In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.
Rebekah Brooks
#33. I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.
Jeffery Deaver
#34. Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.
Lisa Kleypas
#35. [ ... ] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia [ ... ]
Sebastian Horsley
#36. Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard
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